Shadows along the Waccamaw
Dan Albergotti, Coastal Carolina University
Overview:
Dan Albergotti reads five poems in and around his current home of Conway, South Carolina, in locations that include the Waccamaw River and nearby Pawley's Island. For Albergotti, the natural world allows explorations of beauty, love, serendipity, and death. His poems also examine the "emotional landscape of denial" that marked his childhood and youth. |
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"The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron"
(1:06 min.) |
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"The Boatloads"
(1:12 min.) |
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"Accidents Happen with Clockwork Regularity"
(1:25 min.) |
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"Vestibule"
(1:44 min.) |
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"Stones and Shadows"
(4:29 min.) |
About Dan Albergotti:
Born in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Dan Albergotti lived in St. Matthews until age four, when his family moved to Florence. Albergotti currently directs the creative writing program at Coastal Carolina University in Conway. He earned a B.A. and M.A. from Clemson University in 1986 and 1988, a Ph.D. in Literature at the University of South Carolina in 1995, and a M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2002. His first full-length collection of poems, The Boatloads, was published by BOA Editions in 2008 and was awarded the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in various print and online journals, including Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Greensboro Review, Backwards City Review, and Southeast Review.
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Shadows along the Waccamaw is part of the Poets in Place series, a Research Collaboration in the Humanities initiative funded through Emory University's Presidential Woodruff Fund, in collaboration with the Office of the Provost. Series producers are Natasha Trethewey and Allen Tullos.
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